Still time to warm-up for Fantasy F1!

23 March 2013

Even if you missed entering before the Australian Grand Prix, there is still a chance to win big in the Crash.net Fantasy League F1, with one more 'pre-season test' before the main event.

Although missing out on Melbourne means that your chances of winning the Warm-Up Championship have diminished, this weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix provides a valuable opportunity to test your selection skills before the serious business of the main competition gets underway. This is where the big prizes are on offer, with all points accrued over the first two events reset to zero ahead of the Chinese Grand Prix next month.

So, if you fancy yourself as a bit of an F1 expert and never miss a Grand Prix, the Fantasy F1 competition will allow you to put all of your formidable well-developed F1 expertise to good use and win yourself some cash in the process. It'll tick all those boxes and scratch all your team manager itches, while keeping you entertained season-long from first lights-out to the last drop of the chequered flag.

For just a tenner per team, you get to cast yourself in the role of the ultimate team manager. That's right, just £10 per fantasy team gives you the opportunity to prove that you can outwit the likes of Christian Horner, Stefano Domenicali, Martin Whitmarsh, Ross Brawn et al. Shouldn't be too hard, now, should it?

Picking your fantasy team couldn't be easier: all you have to do is select six drivers and a constructor from the respective lists, ensuring that the total value of your team does not exceed your budget of $100 million as you go. If that's too much strain for a busy mogul as yourself, you can do what some F1 teams seem to do every year and use our Lucky Dip team selector to do all the hard work for you! That will randomly select a valid team, and all you have to do is confirm that you are happy with the selections - or make some fine-tuning adjustments - before submitting your line-up.

Upon registration, you're automatically entered into all of the competitions, where you will compete for the chance to win £20,000 in prizes - including a first prize of £5,000 and a runners-up trip to the 2014 Monaco Grand Prix, the undoubted 'jewel' in the F1 crown.

Remember though, before you throw yourself headlong into the main competition, you can use Malaysia this weekend for some final 'pre-season testing', with the race being part of a two-race Warm-Up Championship alongside last weekend's Australian GP. After the Malaysian GP, all scores to date will be cleared in preparation for the Main Championship, starting with the Chinese GP at 08:00 BST on Sunday, 14 April, from which point on you'll have to make do with just 25 team changes to use for the remainder of the season.